FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.

[BSD baby]

> > On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port:
> > /usr/ports/audio/flac
> > Using no special options on a .wav file:
> > flac mysong.wav
> > I get "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".
> > I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files.
> > Has anyone gotten it to work?
> 
> Of course!
> % flac cdda.wav
> 
> ----[snip]----
> 
> options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
> cdda.wav: wrote 39604764 bytes, ratio=0.598
> 
> % uname -rs
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> 
> % uname -rs
> FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
> 
> Maybe you are building world/kernel/ports with the wrong optimisations
> (/etc/make.conf).


Very strange.

When I went and built from source the non-ports way it worked fine:

./configure ; gmake ; gmake install

(but crashed when using make instead of gmake.)

But still the standard port on a FreeBSD 4.8 system doesn't work.